El sistema de Tianxia y el sueño chino como plataformas teóricas-discursivas para la construcción de legitimidad en la nueva ruta de la seda de China

The revival of traditional Chinese concepts such as Tianxia and the analysis of emerging ideas as the Chinese dream, brought to the global and international arena, allows us to rethink current processes in a self-contained framework. The Tianxia was established back in the times of the Zhou Dynasty (1046-256 BC) to ensure unity in the diversity of the people, which gave rise to new relationships and assigned functions to avoid conflicts. The notion of the Chinese dream was introduced by President Xi Jinping, looking to export social and economic benefits to the rest of the territories outside China’s orbit. However, both proposals have platforms that exceed the territorial scale of this Asian country, since they try to legitimize themselves through global practices. From these two concepts, we use China’s New Silk Road (NSR) as object of analysis. The problematization of this topic, based on Chinese theoretical postulates, is able to provide an outlook of the geopolitical and cultural thinking of the Asian giant. This type of study is based on a situational analysis, since the nsr still need to spread its influence. Therefore, this article is not a concluding work, but a preliminary look at the challenge proposed and imposed by the NSR in China.